joint venture | a venture by a partnership or conglomerate designed to share risk or expertise, a joint venture between the film companies to produce TV shows |
glass lizard glass snake joint snake | snakelike lizard of Europe and Asia and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail |
fetlock fetlock joint | the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern |
hock hock-joint | tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals, corresponds to the human ankle |
artificial joint | a metal or plastic part that is surgically implanted to replace a natural joint (possibly elbow or wrist but usually hip or knee) |
ball-and-socket joint | a joint that can rotate within a socket |
butt joint butt | a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping |
clip joint | a place of entertainment where high prices are charged for poor entertainment |
dovetail dovetail joint | a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises |
fish joint | a butt joint formed by bolting fish plates to the sides of two rails or beams |
hinge flexible joint | a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other |
joint marijuana cigarette reefer stick spliff | marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking |
joint | junction by which parts or objects are joined together |
joint | a disreputable place of entertainment |
Joint Direct Attack Munition JDAM | a pinpoint bomb guidance device that can be strapped to a gravity bomb thus converting dumb bombs into smart bombs |
juke jook juke joint jook joint juke house jook house | a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox |
knuckle joint hinge joint | a joint allowing movement in one plane only |
lap joint splice | joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together |
miter joint mitre joint miter mitre | joint that forms a corner, usually both sides are bevelled at a -degree angle to form a -degree corner |
mortise joint mortise-and-tenon joint | a joint made by inserting tenon on one piece into mortise holes in the other |
rabbet joint | a joint formed by fitting together two rabbeted boards |
rib joint pliers | a type of pliers |
scarf joint scarf | a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end |
slip-joint pliers | pliers with a joint adjustable to two positions in order to increase the opening of the jaws |
strap hinge joint hinge | a hinge with two long straps, one strap is fastened to the surface of a moving part (e.g., a door or lid) and the other is fastened to the adjacent stationary frame |
toggle joint | a joint made by two arms attached by a pivot, used to apply pressure at the two ends by straightening the joint |
tongue and groove joint | a mortise joint made by fitting a projection on the edge of one board into a matching groove on another board |
universal joint universal | coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions, in motor vehicles a universal joint allows the driveshaft to move up and down as the vehicle passes over bumps |
joint probability | the probability of two events occurring together |
mandibular joint temporomandibular joint articulatio temporomandibularis | the joint between the head of the lower jawbone and the temporal bone |
suture sutura fibrous joint | an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull) |
synovial joint articulatio synovialis diarthrosis | a joint so articulated as to move freely |
shoulder shoulder joint articulatio humeri | a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula |
knee knee joint human knee articulatio genus genu | hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella |
gliding joint articulatio plana | a freely moving joint in which the articulations allow only gliding motions |
ankle ankle joint mortise joint articulatio talocruralis | a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus |
elbow elbow joint human elbow cubitus cubital joint articulatio cubiti | hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped |
interphalangeal joint | any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers or toes |
hinge joint ginglymus ginglymoid joint | a freely moving joint in which the bones are so articulated as to allow extensive movement in one plane |
wrist carpus wrist joint radiocarpal joint articulatio radiocarpea | a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones |
knuckle knuckle joint metacarpophalangeal joint | a joint of a finger when the fist is closed |
joint articulation articulatio | (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) |
ball-and-socket joint spheroid joint cotyloid joint enarthrodial joint enarthrosis articulatio spheroidea | a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone |
hip hip joint coxa articulatio coxae | the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum |
pivot joint rotary joint rotatory joint articulatio trochoidea | a freely moving joint in which movement is limited to rotation, the articulation of the radius and ulna in the arm is a pivot joint |
big-bang theory big bang theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe originated sometime betweenbillion andbillion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small volume of matter at extremely high density and temperature |
steady state theory continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
hypothesis possibility theory | a tentative insight into the natural world, a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena, a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory, he proposed a fresh theory of alkalis that later was accepted in chemical practices |
M-theory | (particle physics) a theory that involves an eleven-dimensional universe in which the weak and strong forces and gravity are unified and to which all the string theories belong |
string theory | (particle physics) a theory that postulates that subatomic particles are one-dimensional strings |